To Step Aside — Pet Shop Boys

By the cathedral Into the sun Pilgrims are singing Their journey done I look at my short life and think Of all the chapagne that I drink With all the faces that I know And how much futher can one go?

And if I decide To step aside I will try to reply To the feelings I hide

I look from my window Down to the square At workers still queueing Patiently there For market forces to provide What History's so far denied For a different kind of fate Than to labour long and always wait

And if I decide To step aside I will try to return To the person inside

Will I always need you? Would you want me too? Can you love me for good? That way you thought you could?

Or will spring rain and summer burn Will tears at last precede the turn From summer warmth to sudden cold As certainly as growing old

And if I decide To step aside I will try to forget All the tears I'll have cried